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		<title>Rescanning your storage in an ESX cluster</title>
		<link>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/11/rescanning-your-storage-in-an-esx-cluster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VMWare things]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://it.thingies.eu/?p=94</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying then having to rescan your VMFS filesystems or HBA&#8217;s in ESX3. Going from node to node and click all the time. If you have one or two nodes this is do-able, but i&#8217;m maintaining multiple clusters with a grand total of 30 nodes..
However VMWare created PowerCLI, perhaps the most powerfull piece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gentoo world update 08/11/2009</title>
		<link>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/11/gentoo-world-update-08112009/</link>
		<comments>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/11/gentoo-world-update-08112009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gentoo things]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://it.thingies.eu/?p=92</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well the Gentoo DEV team messed up the current world build, i&#8217;ve just upgraded the first of 8 servers to the new &#8220;CURRENT&#8221; version and i&#8217;ve already walked into a world of hurt that should never have been necessary.
- syslog-ng updated to 3.0
	the config is not backwards compatible so you need to rewrite the whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retrieving Missing WMI classes</title>
		<link>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/11/retrieving-missing-wmi-classes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows things]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://it.thingies.eu/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When missing WMI classes in the namespaces you can take ages getting something to work.
However you can easly regenerate the WMI classes that should be there in the first place using the command

wmiadap /F

I&#8217;ve been using it in windows 2003 and it works like a charm!
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		<title>EX2007 Queue monitoring</title>
		<link>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/10/ex2007-queue-monitoring/</link>
		<comments>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/10/ex2007-queue-monitoring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exchange things]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows things]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://it.thingies.eu/?p=88</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the same Queue monitoring script, but then written for exchange 2007.

##
# Exchange queue monitoring for exchange 2007
# Written by Marcel Stangenberger
#
# Created on 27/10/2009
# Version 1.0
##
$queuecount = (get-queue &#124; where {$_.MessageCount -gt &#8220;20&#8243;})
$queueview = (get-queue)
$messageview = (get-queue &#124; where {$_.MessageCount -gt &#8220;20&#8243;} &#124; get-message)
$redalert = &#8220;red &#8221; + (get-date)
$greenalert = &#8220;green &#8221; + [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EX2003 Queue monitoring with powershell</title>
		<link>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/10/ex2003-queue-monitoring-with-powershell/</link>
		<comments>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/10/ex2003-queue-monitoring-with-powershell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exchange things]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows things]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://it.thingies.eu/?p=85</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big fan of powershell. Now for a customer we&#8217;re hosting a windows 2003 server running exchange 2003. Since we use BigBrother as a monitoring tool we don&#8217;t have all the luxuries that more sophisticated monitoring tools have. So i&#8217;ve written a little script that does queue monitoring for you.

##
# Exchange queue monitoring for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using a NTP server with Windows 2008</title>
		<link>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/09/using-a-ntp-server-with-windows-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/09/using-a-ntp-server-with-windows-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows things]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://it.thingies.eu/?p=78</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In windows 2003, using a NTP source for time sync a bit of a bother, you had to set it up manually, reset the services and then pray that it would work :

- net time /setsntp:&#8221;ntp.xs4all.nl&#8221;
- w32tm /query /peers
- net stop w32time
- net start w32time
- w32tm /resync
- w32tm /query /peers
- open up regedit, go to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>null routing ssh dictionary attacks</title>
		<link>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/08/null-routing-ssh-dictionary-attacks/</link>
		<comments>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/08/null-routing-ssh-dictionary-attacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux things]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://it.thingies.eu/?p=70</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now i know there are many solutions to fight against ssh dictionary attacks. I&#8217;m adding a null-routing solution to the options. This script searches /var/log/syslog (or any other logfile you specify) for specific keywords (you specify) and then adds the IP to the null route list. Enjoy  
*UPDATE* i fixed a bug in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reset your logon keyboard after vmware template deployment</title>
		<link>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/08/reset-your-logon-keyboard-after-vmware-template-deployment/</link>
		<comments>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/08/reset-your-logon-keyboard-after-vmware-template-deployment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows things]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://it.thingies.eu/?p=64</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most annoying things when deploying a windows VM from a template in VMWare ESX 3.5 is that the regional settings get all messed up. Especially when using the dutch region settings and a us or us international keyboard (which actually all dutch are using!)&#8230;.
Now to fix this i wrote a little script [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare tools in ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/08/vmware-tools-in-ubuntu/</link>
		<comments>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/08/vmware-tools-in-ubuntu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux things]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://it.thingies.eu/?p=60</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Frederik Vos wrote a nice article on how to install open-vm-tools in ubuntu 9.04
This is a very decent article, however, i prefer not to install X on a server that does not need it, so i rewrote the install part of his manual to remove X from the installation :
aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` wget g++ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows disaster recovery without disaster recovery backups</title>
		<link>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/07/windows-disaster-recovery-without-disaster-recovery-backups/</link>
		<comments>http://it.thingies.eu/2009/07/windows-disaster-recovery-without-disaster-recovery-backups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows things]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://it.thingies.eu/?p=58</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A realy serious issue one can have is having to ensure that you can make disaster recoveries even if your employer won&#8217;t allow you to buy the disaster recovery plugins from your supplier. We are using netvault from bakbone. A nice backup suite but with fearly expensive licenses. However the technical support is good and [...]]]></description>
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